Hone Your Radar To Seize These Conference Innovation Invitations June 26, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Innovation may be a tired word. There is no doubt that innovation has become an overused and confusing buzzword. It is riddled with an excessive number of meanings from authors, dictionaries, experts and our personal experience. Ask ten people to define innovation and you’re probably going to get a dozen or more responses. Innovation is … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , experimentation, information liberation, Innovation, innovation invitations, science integration, sensemaking
The Fantastic, Super-Sized, Research Proven Benefits Of Curiosity June 22, 2018 by Jeff Hurt The future belongs to the curious! Curiosity is the key to success both now and in the future. When curiosity is combined with passion, aspiration and accomplishment it creates a winning formula resulting in achievement. Conference organizers that create a culture of curiosity gain both a short and long term competitive edge. Those that exhibit … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference culture of curiosity, culture of curiosity, curiosity, curiosity cycle, curiosity's benefits, curious, curious participants, discover, explore, questioning, right answers, search for solutions
Star Struck: Identifying Your Conference North Star June 21, 2018 by Jeff Hurt For centuries, explorers and those sailing the sea have relied on the North Star, or Polaris, to navigate. Long before the advent of the GPS, the North Star provided a distinctive visible position to true north. Travelers used its bright light as a guide to ensure they were voyaging in the right direction. Sailors adjusted … [Read more…] Filed Under: Experience Design Tagged With: , conference organizer, conference professionals, conference purpose, conference purpose as North Star, lead with purpose, meeting professionals, North Star for conferences, purpose, purpose-driven, purpose-driven conference organizers, purpose-driven conferences
Conference Purpose With Power And Participants Leads To Profitability June 14, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Does your event have a clear and inspiring purpose? (If you’re shaking your head yes, then what is it?) Now imagine someone asking your conference participants that question. How would they respond? I suspect they would say “Yes, of course it has a purpose!” Then they would launch into a passionate description of your event’s … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference organizer, conference professionals, conference purpose, lead with purpose, meeting professionals, purpose, purpose-driven, purpose-driven conference organizers, purpose-driven conferences
If You Design Conference Experiences, Read This! June 4, 2018 by Jeff Hurt We design experiences for our customers. So why don’t we design experiences for ourselves? Have we missed the obvious? (I confess: I have!) As conference organizers, why can’t we also have a fun, fulfilling, and collaborative experience planning and designing the conference? Well, we can and should! And our planning team members should too. Six … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference as a giving field, convergence, convergent thinking, design conference experiences, design conference participant experience, design conferences, divergent thinking, experience-driven feedback, inscaping, practive divergence, reflective thinking, role hacking
Your Conference As A Giving Field May 29, 2018 by Jeff Hurt We are used to thinking of our conference and its planning process as a one-way transaction from the company to its customers. Sometimes we view the planning process as a backbreaking, arduous, life-draining experience. We may even dread working with a new conference advisory committee due to our negative past experiences. If this sounds like … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , conference as a giving field, giving and receiving, transactional experience, transfromative experience
Three Core Conference Planning Tenets To Master And Skillfully Apply May 18, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Does your conference committee practice organized abandonment and avoid no-bottom-line-mindsets? What is their capacity to see opportunities in the mist of change? How are they at focusing on the purpose, goals and target market of the conference when making decisions? These three principles are vital to maintaining a healthy, strong conference. Often conference planning members … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Networking, Event Planning Tagged With: , conference emerging practices, conference tenets, no-bottom-line-mentality, no-bottom-line-mindset, organize for opportunity, organized abandonment, strategic alignment
Lather Up Curiosity, Rinse, Repeat! May 16, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Children are curious creatures. They explore, question and wonder, often through play. In this context, they learn. We are naturally inclined to learn new things; thus reaping curiosity’s benefits. From the moment we are born until we die, learning is hardwired into our brains. As adults, our challenge is to embrace curiosity instead of viewing … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , constrained curiosity, curiosity, curiosity cycle, curiosity's benefits, curious, discover, explore, questioning, right answers, search for solutions
How Do We Know Curiosity Killed The Cat? (Allegedly.) May 14, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Curiosity allegedly killed the cat. How do we know curiosity killed that cat? Were there any eyewitnesses to that crime? Did anyone hear strange cat calls? Did you see what curiosity was wearing? Do you know any reason why curiosity wanted to kill the cat? Were curiosity and the cat family, friends, enemies, frenemies, or … [Read more…] Filed Under: Conference Education Tagged With: , curiosity, curiosity allegedly killed the cat, curiosity killed the cat, curious, discover, explore, questioning, right answers, search for solutions, start with questions
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: From Industrial Revolution Work Models To Knowledge Economy Models May 11, 2018 by Jeff Hurt Is your organization stuck in a 20th Century time warp and on the endangered list? Are its structures, business models and operations using outdated methods resembling a relic of the past? Or are your organizational work processes thriving in today’s increasingly hypercompetitive, fast-paced and interconnected marketplace? In order to be a successful 21st Century organization, … [Read more…] Filed Under: Event Planning Tagged With: , 20th century work model, 21st Century work model, association best practices, change, industrial revolution, intent to transformation, Knowledge economy, managing hands, managing minds
